. - the mount rushmore of country today would be morgan wallen, luke combs, luke bryan, jason aldean,ny chesney up there, keith urban. it's generally held by label heads in nashville that it's a bad bet to give a contract to a female singer. - (singing) when they bury our dreams we push them up through concrete we're growing where-- - i will never forget this. i'm sitting in the hallway at a major label in nashville. i can hear them playing the music. and everything sounds really positive, and everyone's laughing, and they're talking. oh, this sounds so pretty. oh, it's good. blah, blah, blah. and then, everybody peeks out the window, and i'm like, hi. and then suddenly, you know, suddenly it's like, oh, well, we got to figure out how to find songs for someone like her. let's tweak some things with her accent. maybe we need to figure out how to build an audience for someone like her. - black people have a hard time in country music. queer people have a hard time in country music. but even white women have a hard time in country music. - if you ask one country radio executive, he says